Far from being merely ornamental, literature has long served as a space of resistance — of uncomfortable questions and identities that refuse to fit into prescribed molds. This month’s reading...
Four of the most talked-about literary adaptations of the moment share one key trait: they were born from the imaginations of women. A Woman of Substance, The House of the Spirits, Like Water for...
Recent children’s literature has been increasingly addressing children’s relationship with the planet, animals, and the natural environment. Some titles combine accessible, fact-based information...
This month over at Five Books For, I’ve been looking at books where education is either a key theme or setting in the story. The book: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go spends a...
Vinicius de Carvalho, King's College London; Boriana Alexandrova, University of York; Eva Cheuk-Yin Li, King's College London; Karolina Watroba, University of Edinburgh; Marion Gibson, University of...
Aditi Upmanyu, University of Oxford In his biography of Mary Wollstonecraft, written after her death, her husband William Godwin remarked of her travel writing: “If ever there was a book calculated...
This month’s reading selections offer a small literary journey through landscapes. In these novels, natural settings play a prominent role and accompany the development of the stories, whether...
If you’re following U.S. foreign policy - whether with a sense of amusement, fear, scorn, or whatever it is you want to feel - you might have noticed allegations in the press that the Pentagon...
The question of the place for human creativity in today’s algorithm-driven world has become unavoidable. In this context, doubts arise that no longer belong solely to the realms of philosophy or...
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don't want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read /...
